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How Nurse Practitioners Are Filling Gaps in Primary Care

Post University

By the mid-1990s, Medicare also approved reimbursement for NP-provided services. Patient Satisfaction Levels A review of several studies, published in the International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances , found that patients of nurse practitioners reported either equal or greater levels of satisfaction compared to patients of physicians.

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Full Practice Authority: APRN Readiness, Barriers to Practice and Access in South Carolina

American Nurse

Additional data highlights 27 of 46 counties having none or fewer than three primary or specialty physicians in the areas of family, women’s health, pediatrics, and psychiatry per 10,000 people. Quality of primary care provided to Medicare beneficiaries by nurse practitioners and physicians. 13 Buerhaus, P., Perloff, J., Smith, V.A.,